[kictanet] Cofek Article citing Digital Villages

Thu Apr 25 22:53:28 EAT 2013

Correction, all the post offices minus the 56 that have been recently
closed/sold or however Posta disposed of them....

On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Bruce Madete wrote:

> Allow me to shed some light on this matter. On behalf Dr Ndemo, l
> chair the committee that was to utilize close to ksh 250 million- as part
> of the Economic stimulus Programme to role out the Digital Villages
> throughout the country. In conjunction with the PCK the progamme would
> cover select Post Offices and later cover all of them. This was in line
> with the wider objective of reaching out to the rest of the country as the
> Government embarked on the 'one stop shop' concept of providing services in
> line with the Constitutions devolved system (indeed a team from PCK went to
> Brazil to benchmark on this). Unfortunately due to time constraints in
> the preparations, the funds were not utilized by the time the budget was
> revised. The funds were withdrawn. The committee is still in place and
> hopefully the funds will be made available next financial year to
> actualize the dream of having digital villages in all the post offices in
> the country.
> Madete
>
> On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo
>>
>> I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed
>> them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need
>> to go do another review.
>>
>> With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research,
>> which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they
>> do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is
>> possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go
>> out in the field this summer!
>>
>> Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the pashas
>> separately from the digital villages.
>>
>> Take care, and kind regards,
>>
>> Warigia
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with these
>>> kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the
>>> highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo at ict.go.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear listers
>>>
>>> The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website,
>>> http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT
>>> Board wishes to correct this position.
>>>
>>> The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date
>>> across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit.
>>> http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this
>>> even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further
>>> develop these centres.
>>>
>>> The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further
>>> information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as
>>> stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as
>>> backed by continuous research."
>>>
>>> We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is
>>> currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website,
>>> in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
>>>
>>> My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided
>>> the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of
>>> energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve
>>> capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary
>>> citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but
>>> asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit
>>> of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There
>>> will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to
>>> do.
>>>
>>> As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a
>>> style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you
>>> will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
>>>
>>> We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the
>>> highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The
>>> country is much better for it
>>>
>>> We pray this carries on.
>>>
>>>
>>> Asante
>>>
>>> Paul Kukubo
>>> Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board
>>> PO Box 27150 - 00100
>>> Nairobi, Kenya
>>>
>>> 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
>>>
>>> Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960
>>> Fax: +254 20 2211962
>>> website: www.ict.go.ke
>>> local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya
>>> twitter:@tandaaKENYA
>>> BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke
>>> Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
>>>
>>>
>>> personal contacts
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Warigia Bowman
>> Assistant Professor
>> Clinton School of Public Service
>> University of Arkansas
>> wbowman at clintonschool.uasys.edu
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> View my research on my SSRN Author page:
>> http://ssrn.com/author=1479660
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>>
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